Wayne Frazee kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 27.
helmikuuta 2004 10:25):
"More recently, in a conversation on the Linux Security Module
list, an
SCC
employee made a rather different statement:
'SELinux includes Type Enforcement technology developed and
patented by
the
Secure Computing Corporation, who still holds rights to all
commercial
use
of the technology. Before a colo company, or anyone else uses
the
technology commercially, it will be necessary to negotiate a
license
with
Secure Computing. If anyone wants to do so, I can help get the
ball
rolling with our Legal and BD folks.'"
> Have the patent-related issues regarding SCC's IP
("Type
Enforcement" - Trademarked and patented) integrated into
SELinux been addressed?
SCC has published a "statement of
assurance" (
http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pdf)
that says: "Secure Computing will not assert the Subject Patent
Rights with respect to any use, modification or distribution of
SELinux software that is permitted by, and is in compliance
with, the terms and conditions of Version 2 of the GNU General
Public License (the “GPL”). "
All kinds of commercial use of SELinux is in compiance with GPL,
so the person claiming that commercial use requires a licence
has been infected with the SCO virus and doesn't know what he's
talking about.
--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka(a)iki.fi